CANBERRA has long been mad about artistic book production, and there is a vibrant community of artists here who use the book form to explore and extend their broader practice, whether it be printmaking, sculpture […]

THE very new Picture House Gallery and Bookshop in Gunning, brainchild of actor and artist Max Cullen and artist Margarita Georgiadis will be the setting for an afternoon-long exhibition, book launch and poetry performance this […]

THE 2013 National Cultural Awards and the inaugural Jean Cecily Drake-Brockman Prize for Poetry were presented at Manning Clark House on Sunday. Winners of the individual and group cultural awards were presented with sculptures specially […]

ONE of the most important retrospectives being held during the Centenary of Canberra celebrations is the exhibition, “I Do Have a Belief – Kevin Gilbert (1933 to 1993)” opening at the Belconnen Arts Centre on […]

THE winners in the latest Litlinks competition were announced last night in a ceremony at the National Library of Australia, presided over by local writer Jack Heath. At the event, winner for the Senior Competition […]

A MODERN day city girl, Butet Manurung, who spent nine years living in the Sumatran jungle with the rainforest people and founded a NGO, won a host of international awards, studied at ANU and married […]

IF you’re in Civic today, Thursday from 12.30-1pm, look around for Poets’ Corner in Garema Place. Local bush poet Laurie McDonald (“although almost none of it is about the bush”, he says) will be launching […]

YOU’VE heard people complain about semiliterate tertiary students. Now the University of Canberra has launched itself on this problem with its announcement of the inaugural University of Canberra Book of the Year. The idea is […]

NEWS of writer Bryce Courtenay’s death has come as no surprise, he has been preparing the public for this over some months, with extensive interviews in the press and an even more searching one with […]

A 14 year old school student from Flynn has today been announced as a finalist for the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers. Ingrid Brett was chosen from 600 entrants from around Australia for […]

I SEE Belconnen Arts Centre has “Underbelly” and “Beyond” writer, Canberra’s Felicity Packard, holding a public seminar introducing participants to the realities of writing drama for television in Australia. Packard, now a lecturer in the […]

MARK McKenna was the winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction for his biography, “An Eye For Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark,” so he’s a logical choice to present the thirteenth Dymphna […]

INDONESIAN poet Khairani Barokka, known as “Okka”, appears today in a reading session at the School of Music’s Biginelli Espresso. An Indonesian writer, performer, artist and researcher who was, last year, was the first Indonesian […]

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A GUNGAHLIN mother, Jennifer Thew, died on Saturday (September 23) due to respiratory complications from influenza. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Meegan Fitzharris says Ms Thew had been in the care of Calvary Public Hospital prior to […]

THE government has issued another warning to gas producers but held off pulling its export control trigger, despite two new reports warning of potential severe local supply shortages. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and […]

GRASS surface circles, picnic tables and umbrellas will be built in Garema Place after a public vote declared “Grounds of Garema” as the winner of the ACT’s inaugural micro parks competition. The design, by Andrew, Louise […]

A BELCONNEN man, 21, and a Coombs woman, 21, have been arrested for stealing a car from a Curtin address and then ramming it into a police vehicle while attempting to escape. After receiving reports […]